Zeppelin2k Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Hello all, Last night I attempted to clean up the various texture mods I use with an optimizer, SMCO. After running SMCO Skyrim wont get past loading a save. I ran the optimize under the " DDS " tab, it worked and freed up ~600mb, but Skyrim will CTD upon loading any save. No problem, I'll restore my backups. I saved a copy of the whole "textures" and "meshes" folders, as well as all the loose files in data. Restored all of those.... and skyrim still wont run. Same CTD.I was a bit hasty in backing up, and backed/restored ALL the data loose files (esm, bsa, esp, etc), but I can't imagine this causing a problem if I delete/restore these. All the restored files are exactly the same as they were before using SMCO. Any ideas? I've tried verifying game file integrity, and I'm booting with NMM and SKSE. I can't figure out why the game won't load, unless NMM has disassociated mods after deleting/restoring the .esm's, etc. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeppelin2k Posted June 11, 2014 Author Share Posted June 11, 2014 To clarify, I can make a new game and it seems to work properly. The problem is loading saves. I've actually found that my oldest two saves will load and seem alright, but I would really prefer not to start from where I was months ago. There is a very long list of mods that have changed since then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeppelin2k Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 Any ideas anyone? I'm still at a loss. I don't understand why my game ceased to work after restoring files that were previously fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nando70 Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 (edited) Did you run the NIF optimization? according to the author it may cause CTD, I am running the program now, DDS and BSA optimizations only though, I'll tell you later what happens. My reasons for running SMCO is because I keep getting black body textures sometimes and that in it self if I ignore the fact it's annoying causes crashes on my system after a while. my hopes are to through this optimization fix the texture issues that I have. OK so I did run it, and everything is working fine for me, you must have done something wrong, I executed first the DDS optimization alone, and after that I executed the BSA, but I skipped the NIF, I could and still can load my old saves and everything works fine and even better. since both meshes and Textures have been optimized the game runs smoother and I haven't so far experienced my former issues. Edited December 20, 2014 by Nando70 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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